Langenstein (Stahlberg)
The Langenstein is a menhir near Stahlberg in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Location and description
The Langenstein is located in a forest area south of the town of Stahlberg on the southern slope of the mountain of the same name a little below the summit. There it marks the border between Stahlberg and Katzenbach . According to a description from 1778, the border between the Stolzenberg rule and the Rockenhausen office ran here at that time . There is a burial mound and a sealed spring near the stone .
The menhir is made of sandstone . It has a height of 345 cm, a width of 125 cm and a depth of 95 cm. It is pillar-shaped, tapers towards the top and ends in a rounded, roof-shaped tip. It broke about 1 m high and was put back together again in 1936. Here he was placed in a cement base. Five blast holes in the upper area, including one directly below the tip, prove that it must originally have been higher. Numerous crosses, other symbols and a heavily weathered face in the form of a medieval horror mask are carved on its surface. Otto Gödel dates the stone to Roman times , as the condition of its surface suggests that it was worked with typical Roman iron tools from the 1st and 2nd centuries, such as a pointed chisel or a bicorn .
literature
- Ernst Christmann: Menhirs and menhirs in the Palatinate. Speyer n.d. (1947), pp. 10-11.
- Otto Gödel: Menhirs, witnesses of cult, border and legal customs in the Palatinate, Rheinhessen and the Saar area. Speyer 1987, p. 163ff.
- Gisela Graichen: The cult place book. A guide to old sacrificial sites, shrines and places of worship in Germany. Hamburg 1990, p. 291.
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 308, 346.
- Horst Kirchner: The menhirs in Central Europe and the menhir thought (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1955, No. 9). Wiesbaden 1955, p. 148.
- Michael Schmidt: The old stones. Travel to the megalithic culture in Central Europe. Rostock 1998, p. 116ff.
- Detert Zylmann : The riddle of the menhirs. Probst, Mainz-Kostheim 2003, ISBN 978-3936326079 , p. 104.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 346.
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '29.2 " N , 7 ° 47' 26.9" E